“The Iranian military has halted the routine harassment by its armed “fast boats” of U.S. naval vessels in the Persian Gulf, the U.S. military said, a turnabout that officials welcomed but were at a loss to explain.

The boats for at least two years would dart toward the U.S. vessels as they passed through the Persian Gulf, risking miscalculation, but haven’t done so for five months, U.S. military officials said.”

So, what could have possibly happened, in the last year, to cause the Iranians to suddenly cease their dangerous provocations since August of 2017?

Could it have been President Trump’s brand of painfully clear diplomacy?

But wait, according to the media which routinely takes a position of complete submission when it comes to America’s worst enemies (except for Russia). Trump’s no-nonsense warnings against other countries screwing around with America is nothing short of insane, they tell us.

He lacks diplomacy skills, they constantly declare.

They even assert that Trump’s a wild man, so incorrigible and unrefined that he doesn’t belong anywhere near the office of the presidency, much less having access to nuclear launch codes.

So, what could it possibly be that has scared the Iranians straight?

The answer, in fact, is elementary, however, and it involves Trump’s extra helping of super-diplomatic skills that the Department of State has been lacking for at least a generation.

It is the president’s heaping expertise at scaring our would-be enemies into positions of extreme caution simply because Trump is completely unpredictable, and by strategic design.

If you will recall, it was back in August of 2017, right about the time that the Iranians halted their toy-dog snarling & nipping at some of the world’s most powerful warships (from America) passing thru the area, that Trump made a powerful statement.

At that time, here’s what was coming from the president in statements that bore absolutely no doubt as to what the president’s intentions were:

“The time for excuses is over, if you want peace, you must stand strong at all times, the world cannot tolerate the menace of a rogue regime that threatens with nuclear devastation"~ President Donald Trump,

Trump is the obvious answer to the media’s rather naive question, especially as to how no less than 50 maritime incidents in the last two years, from the Iranians’ bathtub fleet, before August of 2017, have suddenly vanished, but only under President Trump.

“We are not going to speculate on the reason for this recent positive trend in interactions, though we hope it will continue in the future,” said Cmdr. Bill Urban, a spokesman for U.S. Navy’s Fifth Fleet, in Manama, Bahrain.”

“Ali Vaez, Iran project director at the International Crisis Group, said the decrease in harassment is part of a broader pattern by Tehran to refrain from provoking the U.S. and providing fodder for the Trump administration to blame them for regional instability.”

As if the terrorist-exporting Persians are, suddenly and for the first time in Iranian Mullah history, concerned at how they’re being decently perceived in the world?

Or, might it quite possibly be that Trump’s withholding of pallets full of billions in cash, as a form of cowardly bribery (ala ex-president Obama) bespeaks of a president who prefers the other, much more foreboding, but finalizing tools available for his unyielding expression?

Our take:

As the old saying goes, there is “a method to his madness", or, more precisely worded if you like, the President’s “crazy like a fox.”